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Promote SMEs’ Innovation in Viet Nam Agriculture Sector

SNE accounted for 97.5% of total enterprises in Viet Nam, but only 1% in the Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery sector. In the agriculture sector, SMEs’ innovation has an important role in various stages from inputs, production, post-harvest, processing and trading of agricultural products. In 2015, Viet Nam is one of the 14 outperforming economies among the middle-income group, one of the eight innovation achievers, and one of the 11 developing economies that are labelled “innovation outperformers”. Viet Nam also shared about their Government’s initiatives in promoting innovation and SME development, as well as about the five best practices SME innovation in the agriculture sector.

Vietnam’s Train-the-Trainer Training Course for Women SME Service Exporters would take place in June 2014 in Ho Chi Minh city, Viet Nam, aiming to equip women SME service providers with knowledge, skills and techniques to improve enterprises’ competitiveness and access to the global market, to network women SME service exporters, and develop recommendations for APEC to further build up women SME service exporters’ capacity to participate in the global service chain.

Vietnam presented on its Public-Private Dialogue on Addressing Impediments for SMEs and MEs in Accessing Trade Finance. The objectives of the Dialogue were to exchange information on impediments that SMEs and MEs encountered in accessing trade finance; to develop a set of recommendations for SMEWG to tackle practical as well as potential impediments; and to continue and follow-up good cooperation and coordination among trade finance policy-makers, regulators and SMEs/MEs from previous conferences.

Public-Private Dialogue on Facilitating SMEs Goods and Services Providers and Exporters to Better Integrate into Regional and International Markets

2015/SMEWG40/040
Agenda Item: 16.3
The dialogue was held from 21st to 22nd April in Da Nang city, Viet Nam. The dialogue discussed impediments and challenges that SMEs goods and service providers and exporters faced during their internationalization process. Then it made recommendations on future focused activities on SMEs internationalization and capacity building for APEC economies.